30 Jun: A small contest: win a discount and some free stickers (updated)

To give our visitors a small sample of “The Hex Factor“, we are doing a little contest. Here is a file from the reverse engineering track. There is a hidden message within the file. The first person that posts the message in the comment of this post, gets a 10% ticket discount1 and some BruCON and “PDF – Penetration Document Format” + “How is my Hacking(.com)” stickers donated by Didier Stevens. UPDATE: Comment settings were…

19 Jun: The Hex Factor – win a prize during #BruCON

What do you do when you are between presentations, or if the talk doesn’t interest you that much? There are a lot of other activities during the conference, join one of the hackerspaces or instructors in a free workshop. Give a lightning talk. Still can’t find something interesting to do? Sit down in our cool hacklounge and join a little challenge!!! Well, there is nothing better than sitting behind your laptop and playing a Capture-The-Flag…

04 Jun: The hackerspace challenge

People from various hackerspaces around Europe (or beyond) will be present at BruCON. We gave Randomdata a challenge inspired by the sandwich robot of Bre Pettis. We sent them this movie: Now we are challenging the other spaces to pick up our gauntlet as well to make a cool (arduino) project. Be creative, don’t be limited by our suggestion and have fun. Let the contest begin!!! There will be arduino parts on sales during BruCON…

23 Feb: Calling volunteers for our hacking challenge

During the conference, a Hacker’s Challenge will be running. The main organizer of the challenge is looking for skilled people who can help him set up stuff. The main tasks would be to “invent” easy-to-difficult challenges on different domains (for example): Hacker Trivia Malware analysis Web Application Hacking Forensics etc….. This is a temporary list and is not exhaustive and might be subject to change. The challenge is meant to learn participants some practical skills…